Questions by pjh

Pub quiz question 7351 by pjh

Question: Q: Which clothing company is based in Simonside in South Shields?
Answer: A: Barbour
Categories: Business (4) Newcastle, UK (3)

Pub quiz question 7350 by pjh

Question: Q: Which sitcom was filmed at Crick House, Somerset?
Answer: A: To The Manor Born
Categories: Entertainment (4) Television (3)

Pub quiz question 7349 by pjh

Question: Q: WE Barclay was the first manager of which football rivals?
Answer: A: Liverpool and Everton
Categories: Sports (5) Football (4)

Pub quiz question 7348 by pjh

Question: Q: What medical procedure is known as Lasik?
Answer: A: Laser vision correction/eye surgery
Notes: *: Laser ASsisted In situ Keratomileusis
Categories: Science (3) Biology (3) General Knowledge (3)

Pub quiz question 7347 by pjh

Question: Q: William Crimsworth is the tile character of which Victorian novel?
Answer: A: Charlotte Brontë's The Professor
Categories: Literature (7) General Knowledge (7)

Pub quiz question 7346 by pjh

Question: Q: What 1890s work is the longest symphony in the standard Repertoire?
Answer: A: Mahler's 3rd
Categories: Music (8) Entertainment (7)

Pub quiz question 7345 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: King Lear; Colonel Prozorov; Mr. Dashwood?
Answer: A: Three daughters
Notes: *: Shakespeare play, Chekhov's Three Sisters; Austen's Sense and Sensibility
Categories: Literature (7) Connections (8)

Pub quiz question 7344 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Ed Sheeran; Kylie Minogue; INXS; Beloved; Def Leppard?
Answer: A: Released albums entitled X
Notes: *: 2014, 2017, 1990, 1996, 2002
Categories: Connections (7) Music (7) Entertainment (8) 2010s (8) 1990s (8) 2000s (9)

Pub quiz question 7343 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Bern; Munich; Rome; Rio de Janeiro?
Answer: A: German World Cup wins
Notes: *: 1954, 1974, 1990, 2014
Categories: Sports (6) Football (4) Connections (7) 2010s (9) 1990s (9) 1970s (9) 1950s (9)

Pub quiz question 7342 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: George Lawson and Wayne Sleep; Celia Birtwell and Ossie Clark; Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood?
Answer: A: David Hockney double portraits
Categories: People (9) Connections (8) Art (6)

Pub quiz question 7341 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Marton in Cleveland, 1728; Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii; 1779?
Answer: A: Captain Cook
Notes: *: Born/dies
Categories: People (6) 1700s (7) Connections (8)

Pub quiz question 7340 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Dwayne Johnson; Kellan Lutz; Lou Ferrigno; Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Answer: A: Have played Hercules on screen
Notes: *: 2014 (Hercules), 2014 (The Legend of Hercules), 1983 (Hercules), 1970 (Hercules in New York)
Categories: Film/Movies (6) Entertainment (7) 2010s (8) 1980s (8) 1970s (8) Connections (8)

Pub quiz question 7339 by pjh

Question: Q: Charles Hamilton, Frank Kennedy - matrimonially, who came next?
Answer: A: Rhett Butler
Notes: *: Scarlett O'Hara's husbands in Gone With The Wind (Novel 1936, Film 1939)
Categories: Literature (6) General Knowledge (8) Film/Movies (6) Entertainment (7) 1930s (7)

Pub quiz question 7338 by pjh

Question: Q: What is the longest muscle in the human body?
Answer: A: Sartorius muscle, in the thigh
Categories: Biology (7) Science (8) General Knowledge (8)

Pub quiz question 7337 by pjh

Question: Q: What 1975 film did Mark Kermode describe as the "Citizen Kane of British pop movies"?
Answer: A: Slade In Flame (or simply 'Flame.')
Categories: Music (7) Film/Movies (6) Entertainment (8)

Pub quiz question 7336 by pjh

Question: Q: Which plot turns on a strawberry-patterned handkerchief?
Answer: A: Othello
Categories: Literature (6) General Knowledge (7)

Pub quiz question 7335 by pjh

Question: Q: Funchal is the capital of what island?
Answer: A: Madeira
Categories: Geography (6) General Knowledge (7)

Pub quiz question 7334 by pjh

Question: Q: What was Robert McCall's crime-fighting alias?
Answer: A: The Equalizer
Categories: 1980s (7) Television (7) Entertainment (8)

Pub quiz question 7333 by pjh

Question: Q: What's the common name for the ore uraninite?
Answer: A: Pitchblende
Categories: Chemistry (7) Science (7) General Knowledge (7)

Pub quiz question 7332 by pjh

Question: Q: What changed its font from "Helvetica Neue" to "Gotham" in May of 2014?
Answer: A: Twitter
Categories: General Knowledge (8) 2010s (8)

Pub quiz question 7331 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Budmouth; Emminster; Melchester; Mellstock; Sandbourne; Shaston?
Answer: A: Places in Hardy's Wessex
Categories: Literature (5) Geography (8) Connections (8) General Knowledge (8)

Pub quiz question 7330 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Six US flags; two golf balls; a golden olive branch; 96 bags of urine, faeces and vomit?
Answer: A: Some of the items left on the moon
Categories: Connections (8) Space (2) Science (5)

Pub quiz question 7329 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Pendle and Samlesbury, 1612; Belvoir, 1619; Bury St Edmunds 1645?
Answer: A: Witch trials
Categories: Religion (6) Connections (8) General Knowledge (8)

Pub quiz question 7328 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: OCR; AQA; Edexcel?
Answer: A: Examination boards in the UK
Categories: Connections (4) General Knowledge (4)

Pub quiz question 7327 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Aston Villa, Everton and Blackburn (1888 and again in 1992)?
Answer: A: Original members of Football League and Premier League.
Categories: Football (7) Sports (8) Connections (9)